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Re: Loft conversion
You may need to re-inforce the floor because it's only a ceiling at the moment. By that I mean that the ceiling of your downstairs rooms which is also the floor of your bedrooms will have stronger beams in it because it was designed to be a floor and to support furniture but the beams in your upstairs ceilings were not designed to be a floor and may not be strong enough to support furniture despite the fact that people put all sorts of heavy stuff in the lofts.
We had ours done donkeys years ago and the builders who did it knew how much weight a floor needed to be able to support etc. I'm not sure they realised that it would have teenagers dancing about up there or prior to that younger children leaping off bunk beds but even so the ceiling hasn't come down on us yet! Your builder will know what permission you need and what regulations you must comply with too.
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